On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de> wrote:
Robert Cicconetti <grythumn@gmail.com> writes:
Not exactly true. I have a clearance on it, and have a fascicle prepped and at DP. The holdup is that I have yet to come up with a good markup for proofing that can be machine transformed into various dictionary formats.
Lame excuse ;) The proofing rounds are easy (and you only see the difficulties, once you actually let the crowd work on it).
Not really. The OED uses a predecessor of IPA with some oddball symbols.. at the least I have to come up with a table for those or they'll be all over the place. I started one, need to finish it.
Straight TEI is too big, and likely to lead to inconsistencies. I refuse to start something this big without a decent plan for the final output.
I'd recommend to do all "formatting" (= XML tagging) off-site. It would probably the best to use SVN or git/bazar for collaboration. Any idea where we could host such a repository?
I'm not prepared to abandon the DP workflow, especially for a project of this scale, and considering the amount of markup that will be required. At DP I reasonably assume it'll keep moving, even if I drop off the grid or get hit by a bus. -R C